Pokémon Amethyst -~- A Sprite Resource Project

[Mektar]

I still can't hold a candle to Doug, but I can try, right? Behold my Mewtwo WIP!



I still need to recolor the outline in places.

[Scepticallistic]

Hey Alchies my Swampert seems passed in your master list but I can't find him in the album. Does he pass?

Also, Nopie's Blaziken also looks passed but links to a broken image.

Mektar, why Sugimori? ;^; Legends need an extra flair, in my opinion. Plus, there's a huge number of different Mewtwo art everywhere.


The gallery website has finally been updated with a huge amount of additions. Yay us!

[Mektar]

@Scepticallistic: The only other good pictures of him were either looking straght at you, or had the bottom half of his body cut off.

[Tayla]

Er.. so change his pupil location. o.o

[Scepticallistic]

Scratching isn't that bad. :]


On another note, we're now OVER HALFWAY DONE. We've completed about 53% of the sprites in the fourth gen. :D It took us less than a year, too. Is that good?

[BuddyBlueBomber]

Yay, here comes 5th gen! But by the rate you guys are going, that doesn't seem like it'll be that much of extra time.

[MrBlack]

Originally Posted by Fat DougJustDoug

I have no intention of infracting anyone for comments about my sprite. I posted a sprite like anyone else, and I'm subject to comments and critique like anyone else. Mr. Black -- feel free to comment however you like (within the general Smogon posting rules, of course).

It didn't, it would probably be considered a troll post :P

[Abecedarian]

I didn't see it taken on the list, so I made a Pidgey sprite:


The sprite is pixeled off of this card:
http://archives.bulbagarden.net/medi...tWonders99.jpg

Again, C&C (and maybe peer editing?) would be loved on this and my Squirtle sprite.

[Tayla]

I can't explain stuff for crap but basically, use less abrupt line changes. ^^


Well.. Luxray's forehead is.. circular. Wouldn't the light hitting his forehead also be.. circular? xD

[Alchemator]

Only Fish and Flying Pokémon should be centred in the canvas, Squirtle is perfectly fine on land so he should be standing.

E: Sleet I see great potential in you as a political advisor.

[Sleet]

Alchemator and Scepticallistic, when you've got a moment to update, etc, the following may or may not need addessing!:

The following pokemon are said to be COMPLETE in the opening post, but do NOT have their picture in the tiny pic album, and consequently are NOT on the sprite website:
-Umbreon
-Wobbuffet
-Elekid
-Swampert
-Latias
-Honchkrow
-Lumineon

Nidoran M, Wooper and Slowking are in the 'Uploaded Stuff' but not in the 'Amethyst album'.

The following pokemon, I guess, can be removed from the tinypic album, if they are not wanted:
-Pidgeot - page 5 of the default layout
-Yanma - page 8
-Latios - page 5
-Shellos E and Shellos W are there twice

Lotad IS in the album but the OP says that it is going through quality control. Lotad IS in the sprite site.

Nidoran M and Slowpoke are going through QC according to the big list, but they are not in the QC list above. Nidoran M is in the album. Slowpoke is not. Neither are on the site

The opening list of pokemon has links to all of the pokemon. I found out that the following pokemon have links that are not right:
-Weepinbell
-Spinarak
-Granbull (the link assigned to Granbull links to Snubbull)
-Blaziken
-Gastrodon East
-Gastrodon West
-Lickilicky
-Arceus

Sorry if these things have been discussed somewhere, I'd like to think I helped somehow though >_>

[Abecedarian]

Originally Posted by Fat Helix

I can't explain stuff for crap but basically, use less abrupt line changes. ^^


Well.. Luxray's forehead is.. circular. Wouldn't the light hitting his forehead also be.. circular? xD

Thank you so much! That looks great, and I appreciate the advice. I think I'm going to have to start a new sprite, and if that does get accepted I'll put your name up for credit as well.

@Alch:Thanks for the clarification.

[Tayla]

Oh, nono. All I did was straighten some lines, you don't need to credit me haha.

[Blackhawk11]

Changed Lanturn a lot as per suggestions awhile back. Didn't bother to make the background transparent because I'm sure it will have to be changed slightly. If it's fine (doubt it) then I'll go ahead and make it transparent.

Edit: Also reserving Riolu (If we're still doing reservations. I've got lineart for it done so I'll have a colored/shaded Riolu in the next few days, depending on activity).

[Nanoswine]

Flipped the shading on Togekiss. Does Chimecho look right now? Spriting small faces is annoying. If anyone else sees something that needs to be fixed, let me know!



These guys still need peer edits. I'm also scratching Alakazam, there were way too many things wrong with the original sprite.

Originally Posted by Fat Helix

Well.. Luxray's forehead is.. circular. Wouldn't the light hitting his forehead also be.. circular? xD

Circular, not a perfect circle. Even the dithering is the same all the way around. It should be more similar to the tapered shape of Luxray's forehead...does anyone else see this or is it just me?

[Abecedarian]

Remade Squirtle:


Pixeled from this card: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wi...Wonders112.jpg

C&C?

[DjGopher]

I really liked the old pose.. But it looked like it was flying. I don't think they can fly :(
Eve brows look sort of odd on a tiny sprite.
The left (our right) eye has a stray red pixel..
The nose should have one pixel/nostril with the lighter, dark shading.
The right (our left) eye looks like it's taller?
Also.. his feet are cut off on the bottom.
Maybe thats just my internet connection, though..

Nidorina can pass
Nidorino looks like.. a portrayed sexual predator.. The face goes too low. It isn't a bad sprite, but its.. creepy looking. Some simple fixes can fix it though :)
That sharpedo, no offense to the spriter, shouldn't be in QC.. It looks way too head on, its mouth is improper looking..
The mouth is sharper and not as much of a semi circle. It looks less like a shark and more like a head hut off of an angry fish that had swollen gills..
Compare

QC Quilfish

[Scepticallistic]

Sleet is awesome. I have since added Blaziken and Altaria to the gallery.

Pidgeot, Yanma, and Latios, however, I purposefully did not add in the past. I had some misgivings about them, and they just sort of sat there.

Actually, for the Pidgeot, there was this:

and for some reason, we added this:

I'm not exactly sure what the deal was. The second one has one too many layers of feathers on the wing; pretty much all Pidgeot images have only 2 feather layers. Also, the body is very short compared to the wingspan. If it were to stow its wings, its feet would not be able to touch the ground. As a minor thing, there are too many sections on its tail. I can't fathom why we would not take the first one.


And then there's Yanma:

Those wings don't look right no matter how I think about them. None of them look like the same type of structure and shape. The legs and shading are also kind of stiff. I'm not sure how this passed. The wings are the main problem.


As for Latios...

First of all, the outline is pretty jagged in places. The shading is also in a curious style. It's dull in the fact that it's Sugimori and in its colors. It's also not a good pose for depicting Latios' huge 6' 7" body.


I think I outlined these qualms before, but like I said, nothing really happened.

[DjGopher]

I hate the first pose..
But the second needs work, like you mentioned..
Especially the beak.
Frankly I don't like either pose very much..

[Mektar]

OK, forget that I made a Mewtwo. Here's my Castform:



Still looking for some C+C for my Rotom Forms.

[Tayla]

I like the first Pidgeot better, simply because its fanned out head crest is so pretty. :)

The circular patch looks right to me. I tinkered with it in Paint and it truly looks the best out of everything I tried. If I don't dither it like that, it looks bad.

[Abecedarian]

I took most of your suggestions, DJ, thank you very much for the input. I ligtened the nose and the eyebrow. As for the eye, I couldn't get it done well. For the feet, I personally find that Squirtle's feet are like that anyways, probably wrong however.

Here it is with the minor fixes:


I suppose this is ready for a peer-edit, as required.

[TacoHawk76]

@ DjGopher lol dude/dudette, do you really think I could butcher Sugimori art that badly? THIS is my concept art.

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Pretty much the ONLY pose I could find without him looking Sugimori-y or being looked at from above. But if you think this card is too anatomically out there, then I'll happily redo it.

Starting Hariyama right now, and goin with the Sugimori... and I just realized this monster is 7'07. Should I just scale him so the highest point of the sprite is touching the top of the 160x160 canvas, or what?

PS: Damn, hadn't the slightest clue that Sharpedo was in QC, and no I took no offense

[DjGopher]

Pokemon that exceed limits should be max size. :)
Don't get me wrong, I don't not like the sprite, but it doesn't seem to match official art very well..
I referenced the sugimori art to show the gill and mouth..
Looks like hes going D:
:P
But those are fairly large outline fixes.. QC is for small tweaks with shading and such. :)

[Alchemator]

The first Pidgeot was replaced with the second at Arch's request. It was later passed (don't know who by).

As for the Yanma and Latios, you definitely haven't brought that up before.